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Long-term outcomes of risk-reducing surgery in unaffected women at increased familial risk of breast and/or ovarian cancer.
Familial cancer - 1 Mar 2015
Heiniger Louise, Butow Phyllis N, Coll Joseph, Bullen Tracey, Wilson Judy, Baylock Brandi, Meiser Bettina, Price Melanie A
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This study prospectively investigated long-term psychosocial outcomes for women who opted for risk-reducing mastectomy (RRM) and/or risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO). Unaffected women from high-risk breast cancer families who had completed baseline questionnaires for an existing study and subsequently underwent RRM and/or RRSO, completed measures of perceived breast and ovarian cancer risk, anxiety,...
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